After 1993 – the year in which Tadao Ando’s Conference Pavilion and the Fire Station by Zaha Hadid were completed, followed by the dedication of Álvaro Siza’s factory hall one year later – no new buildings were constructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein for more than a decade.

The project for The Strand Quadrangle is constituted, fundamentally, by two elements: a new access that reorganises King’s College as a whole, and a grand space that serves as point of reference and articulates the entire public programme.

The main aim of the process of adaptation of the houses was searching the building's historical footprints using creative resources at the lowest cost, through a cleaning job, approach and discovery was possible to achieve optimal results.

The site is located on the edge of a residen- tial zone on the outskirts of Geneva, flanked on its southern border by a forest and opening out to fields to the west. It sits right on the line between the city and nature.